Louis Friedman
Louis Friedman is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson. He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx. Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray.
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Education and career [edit]
In 1961 he earned his Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics from University of Wisconsin. In 1963 he graduated from Cornell University with a Masters of Science in Engineering Mechanics. In 1971 he graduated with a Ph.D. from the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of MIT with his thesis on “Extracting Scientific Information from Spacecraft Tracking Data.”[1]
He worked for AVCO Space Systems Division from 1963-1968. From 1970 through 1980 he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) leading the Advanced Planetary Studies and the post-Viking Mars Program.[2] Other projects at the JPL include Mariner-Venus-Mercury, Planetary Grand Tour (Voyager), Venus Orbital Imaging Radar (Magellan probe), Halley's Comet Rendezvous-Solar Sail, and the Mars Program.[1]
Projects, Print, and Speeches [edit]
- Star Sailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Flight, Louis Friedman, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1988, ISBN 978-0-471-62593-3, 146 pgs.
- Project Director of the Solar Sail mission by The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studies: Cosmos I
- Part of the technical team on the Mars Balloon and Mars Rover for The Planetary Society
- Asked to participate in both Congressional and Administrative reviews for American and Russian space missions[2]
- 2004 Congressional Hearings on Space: United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation – NASA Future Space Mission [1]
- ”Think Bigger About Mars” Louis Friedman, June 27, 2000
- ”A Space Nerd Responds” Louis Friedman, August 13, 2007
- ”Where will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions” Popular Mechanics, September 2007
Associations [edit]
- The Planetary Society – Executive Director and author of World Watch in the Planetary Report
- Sigma Xi
- American Astronautical Society
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Congressional Fellow 1978-79
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